

29, Toole put up a "no vacancy'' sign on the team's locker room two days later.

It didn't look very good after the Sacred Heart game.''Ī bit put out by the Colonials' "no urgency'' performance in an 84-75 loss at Sacred Heart Jan. "Probably three or four weeks ago, I don't know if anybody in this room other than me thought we could get third place. "I'm proud of the way that they battled back to finish the regular season out,'' Toole said last Saturday night after his team beat Wagner, 66-49, to extend its winning streak to six games. That earned them the third seed in the NEC Tournament, which begins Thursday night against Wagner at the Charles L. The Colonials, who checked in at 5-5 after 10 Northeast Conference games, checked out of the regular season with a 12-6 record. "I'm proud of the guys for staying together and working hard,'' RMU coach Andrew Toole said. More like the upgrade from the laundry room to an upper floor suite. The Robert Morris University Colonials' late-season rise wasn't quite the outhouse-to-penthouse ascent.
